Royal Society Research Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University and Former Visiting Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, UK Mike Ashby is sole or lead author of several of Elsevier's top selling engineering textbooks, including Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Materials and the Environment, Engineering Materials 1&2 and Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design. He is also coauthor of the book Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies and Design.

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The renowned, best-selling introduction to understanding engineering materials and their applications, from Mike Ashby and Dai Jones, two of the world's foremost authorities on materials selection in engineering design

Table of Contents

1. Engineering Materials and Their Properties
2. The Price and Availability of Materials
3. The Elastic Moduli
4. Bonding between Atoms
5. Packing of Atoms in Solids
6. The Physical Basis of Young's Modulus
7. Case Studies in Modulus-Limited Design
8. Yield Strength, Tensile Strength, and Ductility
9. Dislocations and Yielding in Crystals
10. Strengthening Methods and Plasticity of Polycrystals
11. Continuum Aspects of Plastic Flow
12. Case Studies in Yield-Limited Design
13. Fast Fracture and Toughness
14. Micromechanisms of Fast Fracture
15. Probabilistic Fracture of Brittle Materials
16. Case Studies in Fracture
17. Fatigue Failure
18. Fatigue Design
19. Case Studies in Fatigue Failure
20. Creep and Creep Fracture
21. Kinetic Theory of Diffusion
22. Mechanisms of Creep, and Creep-Resistant Materials
23. The Turbine Blade—A Case Study in Creep-Limited Design
24. Oxidation of Materials
25. Case Studies in Dry Oxidation
26. Wet Corrosion of Materials
27. Case Studies in Wet Corrosion
28. Friction and Wear
29. Case Studies in Friction and Wear
30. Final Case Study

About the Author

Dr. Jones is co-author of Engineering Materials 1 and 2 and lead author for the 3rd and 4th editions. He was the founder editor of Elsevier's journal Engineering Failure Analysis, and founder chair of Elsevier's International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis series. His research interests are in materials engineering, and along with serving as President of Christ's College at the University of Cambridge he now works internationally advising major companies and legal firms on failures of large steel structures. Mike Ashby is one of the world’s foremost authorities on materials selection. He is sole or lead author of several of Elsevier’s top selling engineering textbooks, including Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Materials and the Environment, Materials and Sustainable Development, and Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design. He is also co-author of the books Engineering Materials 1&2, and Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies and Design.

Reviews

"Ashby (emeritus) and Jones (both Cambridge U.) have made considerable changes to the 2005 third edition (the first edition was published in 1980), among them new illustrative photographs, references to reliable websites, and worked examples to many of the chapters. The textbook is for a first course on materials for undergraduate engineering students, holding up one corner of a curriculum that includes design, mechanics, and structures. It covers price and availability; the elastic moduli; yield strength, tensile strength, and ductility; fast fracture, brittle fracture, and toughness; fatigue failure; creep deformation and fracture; oxidation and corrosion; and friction, abrasion, and wear."--Reference and Research News, October 2012